About January 22
January 22, 2024 is the 22nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 22
- 1771 –Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to the United Kingdom.
- 1890 –The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1901 –Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- 1906 –SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
- 1915 –Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
- 1917 –World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
- 1944 –World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
- 1946 –Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people’s Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
- 1947 –KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 1947 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1957 –Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1957 –The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
- 1963 –The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
- 1968 –Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
- 1970 –The Boeing 747, the world’s first “jumbo jet”, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
- 1971 –The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
- 1973 –The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- 1991 –Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
- 1995 –Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
- 1999 –Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
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